Junkyard Jam Band

Footnotes

Project 1: The Slinkiphone

1. Bare wire-to-wire and wire-to-component solder joints have a tendency to short against each other when you’re rocking out, which sounds just awful. You can insulate them with electrical tape or duct tape, but tape tends to either get gummy as it ages or dry up and fall off. Heat-shrink tubing, on the other hand, stays put and doesn’t muck up your project’s innards. You can buy lengths of heat shrink in a variety of diameters—and even as multicolor precut sampler packs—at many hobby, electronics, or hardware stores.

Project 2: The Plastipickup

1. The sleeve connection of the jack is the one that comes into contact with the barrel or body of the guitar-cable plug, as opposed to the tip. This barrel connects ...